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Comment by hshdhdhj4444

1 day ago

Gruber’s take on the USB-C stuff has been hilarious.

All through that fiasco, where Apple was going through all sorts of twists and turns to avoid switching to USB-C, which was objectively better even if you’re an Apple partisan (given that I could carry a single charging cable for my Mac and Samsung phone, but not for my Mac and iPhone), he was going on and on about how the EU was killing creativity by forcing Apple to do something they didn’t want to.

And then Apple relented, their USB-C iPhone saw some of the fastest growth over a previous model despite having minimal other upgrades, indicating significant pent up demand for a USB-C phone.

And I’m guessing at this point even Gruber can’t imagine living life with a Lightning charger, so now the tune is that Apple was planning on switching to USB-C and they were playing a game to make it like like they were forced to switch by the EU so as not to alienate their current Lightning charger fans.

It’s a patently ridiculous idea but it’s necessary given how badly wrong he was on this issue because of how badly he continues to misunderstand how the EU works (which isn’t anything like how the US govt works).

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AnonC  1 day ago

Anecdotally, I’ve found Lightning to be a nice fit when plugged in (it’s got a nice “click”) and USB-C a bit flimsy and loose in comparison. YMMV.

  • WA  4 hours ago

    Apple could've made Lightning open and maybe Lightning would've been the new USB-C, if it is the superior product. But no, they chose not to.

monerozcash  1 day ago

> All through that fiasco, where Apple was going through all sorts of twists and turns to avoid switching to USB-C

Is there any evidence that "Apple was going through all sorts of twists and turns to avoid switching to USB-C"?

Apple worked to create the USB-C standard, was among the first to widely deploy it.

Apple fighting against a precedent where the EU would force them to switch everything to USB-C is strictly different from Apple going through all sorts of twists and turns to avoid switching to USB-C.

  • ksec  20 hours ago

    >Apple worked to create the USB-C standard, was among the first to widely deploy it.

    And that is exactly Gruber's take. Apple created USB-C standard and gave it to the USB committee for free.

    And it is not even half true. But it spread across the internet as if it was verified.

    The other one being Apple AirPod sold at cost, and suggest Apple invented big.SMALL CPU core.